When you select any rhythm on an auto accompaniment your entire backing band plays only the 3 or 4 tones of your chords. Auto accompaniment can't play anything else. Unless it plays something to you.

True accompaniments, however, can play 7 tones to each chord.  Like the melody.  These are known to be the tones of the key.

The independence of accompaniment from melody is a fiction that restricts and flattens music.

That's why you prefer to play song-related

Characteristic accompaniments with all their riffs and transition tones, their melodic lines and walking basses. .  .   .

And yet you can play all chords completely freely by switching to Chords on the fly.   In real time.

More tones are simply more music.   A new dimension in auto accompaniment.   And a whole different kind of fun.

3 Ways to Your Accompaniment

Which you can combine perfectly. You play all accompaniments with chords of the left hand.

Playing song-related

You load a suitable MIDI file for your song from the Internet.
From this you let nimbu compute chords and accompaniment and you adjust the instruments a bit. And off you go.
What fun. Everything fits. Rhythm. Bass line. Riffs. Melodic lines. Fills and breaks.
All you need is a keyboard with MIDI Out and you play this accompaniment just with Sync/Stop.
Or you make a style out of it which really fits.

Playing Styles

Either you choose in nimbu one of the 100 fantastic rhythms. Here we go.
Or you download a suitable YAMAHA® Keyboard Style from the Internet.
And also here you adjust the instruments to your setup. And here we go.
You play virtuously with the sections of the style.  Also for recording your backing tracks.
But now you see your style and can edit it for your song.
You even have the tension tones to further enhance the styles.

Editing and Developing Music Yourself

You call up the individual instruments and edit them like a text.
Even in real time, while you are playing chords. With undo/redo, of course.
No fixed preset styles. What fun to experiment with music.
Your possibilities in nimbu are so comprehensive that we have dedicated a separate page to them.
Have a look here.

Thousands of partly first-class MIDI files and YAMAHA® styles are available for free on the Internet.

No matter what you play, you can easily edit any level of music. It's your music.


Your accompaniments are neither limited to chord tones, nor are unsuitable intros and endings played to you.

Here you got an

Arranger on which you make music without limits.

Playing the way music works.  Here is our offer.

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